Manifolding sales book



E. K. BOTTLE 1,772,030

MANIFOLDING SALES BOOK Fil'ed Sept. 14', 1921 ZSheeta-ShQet 1 Ti .3 INVENTOR ATTORNEY Aug. 5, 1930.

E. K. BQ-TTLE Filed Sept. 14, 1921 2 Sheets-sheet 2 Patented Aug. 5, 1936 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE I EDWARD KIRBY BOTTLE, OF ELMIRA, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO AMERICAN SALES BOOK COMPANY,,LIMITED, OF TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA, A CORPORATION OF ONTARIO, CANADA MANIFOLDING SALES BOOK Application filed September 14, 1921. Serial No. 500,495.

This invention relates to manifolding devices and with respect to its more specific features to manifolding books, such as sales books and the like. One of the objects of the invention is the provision of a simple and practical manifolding book of the character referred to capable of ready manipulation and adapted for making as many as four copies at one writing.

Another object of the invention is the provision of a practical manifolding sales book capable of making four copies in which one of thecopies may be temporarily stored in the book and so as not to interfere with the subsequent operation of the book.

' Other objects will be in part obvious and in part pointed out hereinafter.

The invention accordingly consists in the features of construction, combinations of elements and arrangement of parts which will be exemplified in the construction hereinafter set forth, and the scope of the application of which will be indicated in the following claim.

In the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification, wherein similar reference characters refer to similar parts throughout the several views,-

Figure 1 is a perspective View illustrating a so book. involving the invention, the leaves of the book being displaced from operative position to more clearly show their relative ar- 'rangement;

Fig. 2 is aview of a pad of Fig. 1 clearly showin the relative arrangement of the "record iaves and transfer sheets as for inscription;

Fig. 3 is a perspective view showing a modified form of a pad which may be employed;

Fig. 4 is a. perspective view showing-one of drawing, the manifolding book includes a stiff support, or base 1, to which an extended, or cover portlon 2, may be hinged as by the flexible connection .3. At 4 is a stiff back ,cludes three record leaves 6, 7, and 8 in superposed relation, one of these leaves, as the leaf 6, being bound to the book, the second and third record leaves 7 and 8, respectively, be-

ing connected to the leaf 6 so as to be held in the book by the latter leaf. In the embodiment disclosed in Fig. 1 the leaves 6 and 7 are parts of a single paper sheet folded along the line 9 so that these two leaves are integrally connected together. Along the fold 9 the paper is weakened as by perforations to permit easy tearing apart of the leaves 6 and 7. When the pad 5 is in the operative position in the book illustrated in Fig. 1, the line 9 extends transversely at right angles to the axis of the hin e connecting the back 4 with the support 1. n practice the leaves 6 and 7 are preferably of opaque paper, the leaf 7 being the original and the leaf 6 the duplicate. The stub of the pad 5 is formed by binding together extended, or stub, portions of the duplicate leaves 6 of the several main sets of leaves. For instance, the stubs of the duplicate leaves of each main set may be bound together by staples 10. Bound 1n the book with-the bound record leaves 6 are two superposed transfer leaves 11 and 12, these twothe area of paste beingindicated at 13. In practice the triplicate leaf 8 is made of translucent material so that a recordon the back thereof may be read through the thickness of the leaf. But it is to be understood that the leaf 8 may be of opaque material, if desired.

Removably fastened to the support 1 at the side of the pad 5 is a supplemental pad, or set, of record leaves 15, the leaves 15 being adapted to extend into superposed relation with the main sets of leaves from a position at the side of the main sets, this position being on the side opposite the pad 5 from that of the hinge 14:. The leaves 15 are usually of tissue paper but may be composed of more substantial and less translucent material than tissue. In the embodiment illustrated the supplemental pad is composed of superposed tissue leaves which are secured together by a line of stitches through the center of the leaves as illustrated at 16, Fig. 6, the

' pad or book so formed being slipped endwise into a clip fastened to the support 1 so as to be readily removable from the clip. The clip may be provided by two metallic side walls 17 and 18 bent from a single piece of metal and fastened to the upper surface of the support 1 so that the walls 17 and 18 extend upwardly from the support and provide a passageway therebetween for the insertion and removal of the supplemental pad. It is to be understood, however, that other means of removably holding the supplemental pad alongside the pad 5 may be employed.

The manner of operating the book illustrated in Fig. 1 may be asfollows: The supplemental pad is thrown to one side and the original andtriplicate leaves7 and.8 are pulled toward the operator, these leaves moving on the fold 9 as a hinge as it were. Thereupon the lower transfer leaf 12 which, in the pres ent embodiment, is coated with transfer ma terial, as carbon, on both faces, is permitted to fall onto the upper face of the duplicate leaf 6. Then one of the tissue sheets 15 of the supplemental pad is manifoldingly positioned by being moved sidewise of the pad 5 into position on the upper face of the transfer leaf 12, the leaf 15 rotating as it were around its line of attachment to the support 1. Then the upper transfer leaf 11 is laid upon the upper face of the tissue leaf 15 and then the two leaves 7 and 8 are disposed on the upper face of the leaf 11, the triplicate leaf 8 lying directly against the upper face of the transfer leaf 11 so that the leaf 7 becomes the leaf to take the original inscription. Having made the inscription on the original leaf 7 it will be transferred to the three underlying record leaves, including the leaf 15, the transferred inscription being on the back of the leaf 8 and both the front and back of the leaf 15. If desired, however, the upper face of the'underlying'transfer leaf 12 may be uncoated so as to avoidtransferring the inscription to the back of the leaf 15.

Instead of using two transfer leaves as 11 and 12 extending from the stub, as illustrated in Fig. 1, a single folded transfer leaf may be employed, as illustrated in Fig. 3. In the latter figure the numeral 19 indicates a transfer sheet or leaf lying on the duplicate record leaf 6 and having an extended portion 20, being a folded portion of the sheet, lying between the leaves 7 and 8. With this arrangement the inscription is applied to the upper face of the inter-sheet 8 and under such circumstances said inter-sheet may be opaque. However, it will be understood that the extended portion 20 of the transfer sheet 19 might lie upon the record leaf 15 when the latter is in the superposed relation and thus perform the transferring function of the transfer sheet 12 of Fig. 1. Both the sheet 19 and the extended portion 20 are preferably coated with transfer material on both faces.

In Fig. 5 is illustrated a different modification of the main sets of record leaves. In this figure the intermediate record leaf 21 is integral with the outer original record leaf 22, which latter leaf corresponds in'position to the leaf 7 of Fig. 1. Pasted at 23 to the under face of the leaf 2l adjacent the fold 24r where the two leaves 21 and 22 are integrally connected, is the record leaf 25, this latter leaf being preferably of opaque material and having a stub for-binding it in a pad composed of main sets of leaves connected together as illustrated in Fig. 1. With the arrangement of leaves illustrated in Fig. 5 two transfer leaves'will be employed bound with the stubs of the leaves 25, as explained in connection with Fig. 1.

In the modification illustrated in Fig. 4, the intermediate record leaf 30, instead of being attached to the outer end of the original leaf 7, as in Fig. 1, is pasted to the upper face of the duplicate leaf 6, adjacent the fold 9, and may be of opaque material. Also instead of pasting it to the upper face of leaf 6, it may be pasted to the under face of original leaf 7, as illustrated in Fig. 7, where 30 indicates the intermediate leaf. Two transfer sheets are employed with the construction of Fig. 4 and Fig. 7, being similar in this respect to Fig. 1. It is to be understood that the pads of Figs. 4, 5 and 7 are to be associated with a supplemental pad 15, as explained in connection with Fig. 1. In all forms illustrated the transfer sheets have notches to facilitate access to those corners of the intermediate record leaves adjacent the bound end of the pads. These notches are illustrated at 31 and 32 in Fig. 2; at 33 in Fig. 3, and at 34 and 35 in Fig. 4. The bound record leaves of each set are provided with weakened lines tofacilitate tearing them from the stub, and the intermediate leaf 30,

Fig. 4, and leaf 25, Fig. 5 preferably have weakened lines adjacent the folds.

In either modification the main pad 5 may be fastened to the back 4 by a spring clamp, as indicated at 36 in Fig. 1, this clamp gripping the stub of the pad and holding it firmly on the back, so as to move with the back on the hinge connecting the back 4 to the support 1;

In the modifications shown in Figs. 4 and 7 the leaves may be set in manifolding relation by having the transfer leaf l2 lie on the original leaf 6; place the intermediate record leaf 30 or 30 on this transfer leaf; place the transfer leaf 11 on the intermediate leaf; place one of the side working leaves 15 on the leaf 11, and then place the original leaf 7 on the leaf 15. With this arrangement the intermediate leaf 30 or 30 will receive impression on its upper face and may be opaque.

It will be observed that in any of the modifications herein described multi-ply transfer material is used and each ply thereof may be double-faced, that is itmay be coated with transfer material upon opposite faces thereof to accomplish the transfer functions described.

Thus by the above described construction are accomplished, among others, the objects hereinbefore referred to.

As many changes could be made in the above construction and many apparently widely different embodiments of this invention could be made without departing from the scope thereof, it is intended that all matter contained in the above description or shown in the accompanying drawings shall be interpreted as illustrative and not in a limitmg sense.

It is also to be understood that the language used in the following claim is intended to cover all of the generic and specific features of the invention herein described, and all statements of the scope of the invention which, as a matter of language, might be said to fall therebetween.

bottom leaves of the sets of the main pad and whereby quadruplicate copies may be made at a single inscriptlon. I

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

EDWARD KIRBY BOTTLE.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1s:

A manifolding book lncluding, 1n combination, a main pad having a plurality of sets of three record leaves, said leaves arranged in superposed manifolding relation to each other in the pad, one of the leaves of each of said sets being bound at one end thereof into a stub while the other two leaves of each set are connected to the free end of the bound leaf so as to be held by the latter in the pad, a supplemental pad having leaves workable into and out of superposed manifolding relation with the leaves of the main pad from a position at the side of the latter, and multiply transfer material bound to the stub of the main pad and extending therefrom whereby one ply thereof may lie successively on the 

